Monday, Aug. 30


You Are What You Share


We-thinkby Charles Leadbeater(chapters 1-3 available online)Read Excerpt from We-Think (pp. 3-4 of Chapter 1) Engage in the Text Rendering Experience
  1. Select a SENTENCE you think/feel is particularly significant
  2. Select a PHRASE you think/feel is particularly significant
  3. Select a WORD you think/feel is particularly significant
  4. Copy and paste your SENTENCE, PHRASE, and WORD into TypeWith.me
  5. Create Wordleof text rendering from We Think

We-Think Introduction

Animation outlining the ideas in the book . . .

the audience is taking to the stage . . . mass innovation . . . you are what you share

Terms/Concepts to Know

Jot down vocabulary terms from Leadbeater's talk - listen for context clues to add/revise definitions
R&D
SMS
patents
disruptive innovation
open-source
many-to-many
"pro-ams"

Watch the first half of Charles Leadbeater's TED Talk on innovation

Tuesday, Aug. 31

Sign in to the 21cGL wiki

We-Think Questions


Answer questions from We-Think Video on the wiki
Sign your responses using four tildes (~) in a row followed by your username
  • How do we protect what is private?
  • Are we always safe sharing?
  • What if Wikipedia is crap?
  • How do we earn a living if everyone is freely sharing their ideas?

Watch the second half of Charles Leadbeater's TED Talk on innovation
*More presentations by Charles Leadbeater: We-Think videos

Wednesday, Sept. 1


Consumers Become Producers --> "Prosumers"


Questionairre: Have you ever . . .
  • posted a customer review on a shopping site such as Amazon.com?
  • posted a comment on a news story or blog?
  • posted a video to the web?
  • posted photos on the web?

How about your parents? grandparents?
How did consumers and citizens get this kind of information in the past?

The Chaos Scenario

According to On the Media host Bob Garfield, we are in the midst of a new world order.
In his book The Chaos ScenarioGarfield digs into the digital revolution that he says will devastate mass media, and make you the next mogul.
Read pp. 12-15 in the Introduction to The Chaos Scenario
*For more on the Lego story, listen to the Talk of the Nation Interview with Bob Garfield (the Lego story starts @ 12:34)

Use TypeWith.meto collectively answer the question:
How has the "digital revolution" changed the power and responsibility relationships between producers and consumers?
See their collaborative response here.


"More knowledgeable consumers, more educated, more connected with one another, more able to do things together. Consumption, in that sense, is and expression of their productive potential . . . turn[ing] users into producers; consumers into designers." ~Leadbeater, TED Talk on Innovation

Exit Ticket

What does it mean to be a "pro-am" (Leadbeater) or a "prosumer" (Tapscott)?
Give some examples from your own life.

Thursday, Sept. 2


Terms/Concepts to Know

sitcom
GDP
Wikipedia"talk pages"
cognitive + surplus = "cognitive surplus"

Intro to Cognitive Surplus

Watch Clay Shirky on "Where do people find the time" (Part 1, 1:46-7:02)


Discuss Cognitive Surplus

Wikipedia vs. TV watching
Wikipedia = 100,000,000 hours total
TV = 200,000,000,000 hours in U.S. in one year
U.S. TV = 2,000 Wikipedia projects per year
U.S. TV ads in ONE weekend = a Wikipedia project

Clay Shirky TED Talks

Divide students in half: each half watches a different TED Talk
  1. Open the interactive transcript to follow along as you listen to the talk
  2. Select key words, phrases, and sentences to add to the collective note-taking in TypeWith.me
  3. Create 2 Wordles- one from each talk

Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world


Wordle: Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus
Wordle: Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus


Clay Shirky: How social media can make history


Wordle: Clay Shirky on Social Media
Wordle: Clay Shirky on Social Media

Friday, Sept. 3


Social Media and Web 2.0

Whole class discussion of Clay Shirky's ideas - synthesize the ideas from both talks
"Until the lion tells his side of the story, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." ~African proverb
Witness: See it. Film it. Change it.Uses video to open the eyes of the world to human rights violations.

What is Web 2.0?

Before viewing the video clip students will organize the transcript of Wesch's video.

Poetic transcription of the video available here on Wesch's blog

Digital text is above all…hyper.

hypertext can link
With form separated from content, users did not need to know complicated code to upload content to the web,
"There's a blog born every half second."
and it’s not just text…
two sites can “mash” data together
Who will organize all of this data?
we will
we are the web

Web 2.0 is linking people…
…people sharing, tracing, and collaborating…
We’ll need to rethink copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves

The Machine is Us/ing Us

Video by Michael Wesch
"Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes. [Wesch] was inspired to make this video while writing a paper about web 2.0. Struggling to find a way to put it into words, [he] decided to make this video to show it rather than tell it."

The story behind the video . . .
  • The music is from an Ivory Coast musician shared via Creative Commons
  • Wesch uploaded the video on the Wednesday before the Super Bowl
  • By Friday, 2 days after uploading, it had 253 views
  • On Saturday it was up to 1,000
  • On Super Bowl Sunday it was in the top 5 on YouTube
  • On Monday after Super Bowl it was #1 above Super Bowl ads that cost $6 million to produce
  • 1 million viewers in first 2 weeks, to date well over 3 million on YouTube alone
  • This video went viral because people posted to Digg, tagged it on Delicious, etc.



So What Does This Mean for Us?


How is the new media landscape having us re-think . . . ?

Debrief video with gallery walk/chalk talk protocol - key terms each on different piece of chart paper around the room:
copyright, authorship, identity, ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love, family, ourselves

*As seen in the video - Internet Archive: Wayback Machine
See early days of Facebook, CNN on 9-11, etc.